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"Baidu Youa continues Baidu's tradition of providing the best possible
online experience for our users," said Mr.
In the invitation-only preliminary testing stage, 10,000 sellers were selected from over 100,000 applications to become the first merchants of Baidu Youa. Meanwhile, 50,000 users from Baidu's online community platforms were selected to be Baidu Youa's first customers. In the short test period, merchants uploaded more than 1 million items for sale.
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